Ex:Re - The Dazzler

'The Dazzler' is taken from Ex:Re's self titled debut album, digitally out now on 4AD & Glassnote Records. Buy & stream 'The Dazzler' here: smarturl.it/ExRe
Actor: Maxine Peake
Person in the corridor: Alfrun Rose
Concierge: Fabian Prynn
Directors: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Producer: Hannah Bellil
Production Company: Prettybird
Head of Production: Hannah May
Executive Producers: Juliette Larthe & Ted Thornton
Production Assistants: Benji Landman & Chris Murdoch
1st AD: Will Jasper
Runner: Enrique Da Silva
Runner: Mark Bleziri
Runner: Ellie Taverner
Runner: Eloise Fleet
Director of Photography: Ben Magahy
Focus Puller: Ran Geffen
Sound Playback: Roger Cutting
Gaffer: Bruce Magahy
Electrician: Steve Dredlock
Makeup/Hair/Wardrobe: Emily Newson
Production Designer: Libby Uppington
Production Design Assistant: Joshua Douglas Bagley
Editor: Olly Stothert
Colourist: John Claude
Post Production Company: Dirty Looks
Label: 4AD
Special thanks to Sophie Brooks and Town Hall Hotel.
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[@madie421]

“I can shower for hours” me too girl

[@dmitriyx7557]

Lol o thought it’s only me 😂😂😂 I usually don’t feel the time when I’m there 😂

[@lucasdelhove1568]

Favourite part of the song. When the piano comes in

[@madie421]

Lucas Delhove same, I like the way she says it too

[@maruviales8807]

I'm a man and me too I think that's weird

[@thebesttheworst2277]

... "Come at me bro!" - *2024 Electricity & Gas Prices* 😋

[@Juneau04]

I think I'm probably over analysing but the piano in this song sounds like a constant loop. As if she's stuck in her own self. With her own demons.

[@JR-ib4qt]

'Here in my hotel room, I look gorgeous, I look like I'm 24, before, I caught your coldness, god I'm gorgeous.' God that line is powerful.

[@illiadozorenko37]

actually it would be so much better without this line...

[@JR-ib4qt]

@@illiadozorenko37 naaaaaaaaa

[@matotomato]

Agreed! That's the line that got me

[@Har.]

Also the line of "the falsety of hotel sex"

[@jenniferkudluk]

I thought it was, I look perfect

[@WildYouthSubs]

What a great way to wake up

[@greyperry]

you are everywhere

[@Broperzyto]

Ahí vieneee.

[@wenslyventura1350]

Espero que la saques en tu canal. Besos 🌻

[@MariaPerez-eh7oi]

Sacala por favorrr

[@whateveridontcare7451]

y cuando la subtitularas porfi?

[@sarahwo6152]

"This is living." sounds so positive. And then you watch the video and see a woman break down and it feels like her state of mind is endless. And at the same time you hear Elena's heavenly backing vocals.. What a heavy, yet beautiful song..

[@haydendutton6916]

This song hit me hard in many ways, I relate to it, it brings me back to the nights in the city where I would wander around and see all the happy couples walking around, laughing, kissing, cuddling, having dinner, living. The loneliness I felt was suffocating, I would call up guys for a cheap thrill, some sex in a decent hotel with some drinks just to feel something other than the emptiness inside me, growing. I would feel sick after like I was degrading myself for sinking this low just to escape my problems. I felt like nobody would love me in those times, I was kind of hoping that one day a guy wouldn’t just get up and leave once the sex ended. I was hoping they would stay and hold me and let me cry out all this sadness enveloping me, engulfing my being deep inside. There were many nights in that city, in those hotel rooms, of just loneliness, pleasure, relief, hopelessness and confusion, I could see the imprints of myself in the walls. My life is better now, I’m lucky for what I have and the guy I have in my life. I’ll never forget though those feelings and how close I was to ending it all in one of those rooms, each night was like a dance with death. Those memories feel like a blur, they’re strangely nostalgic. This song brings it all right out of me. I’m grateful for escaping that cycle, I know some that never escape.

[@MultiKiselek]

thank you for the comment. I'm really happy you're better now. wish you all the best in your life

[@Hey.freedom]

I'm relay glad to see your happiness! Your story is very sad and dramatic, I hope u will never feel it again🙏🏻 I felt your every word, even though they were not written in my language. I just wanted to say that u not alone and I'm feel it all with u❤️ you have to be the happiest girl in the world！ I really hope for it！

[@haydendutton6916]

Анна Прокопьева Actually I’m a guy, I’m Gay :)

[@FrozenTearDropz]

This was beautifully written & expressed. Tears in my eyes. I'm glad you were able to get out of that loop.

[@haydendutton6916]

Neal Finn Interesting, did I ever say anything about wanting sympathy? Unlike yourself who posts wanting attention by provoking a response, I simply wanted to share an experience from my past that a song brought back up to surface so that others may share their own personal histories or perhaps feel that something I said makes them not feel alone in what they are going through. It’s hardly related to asking for sympathy that’s why I added into the ending what my life is like now compared to what it was back then and how I found happiness and how I’m not alone, it might bring some hope to someone else who is struggling that they too can surpass their own personal struggles or pain. You don’t know what strength is considering you sit behind a screen attempting to be a “keyboard warrior” because you’re immature and your brain cannot comprehend anything outside of your own self. I suggest getting a life, your words are about as meaningless as a speck of dust in my mirror and they carry about as much weight.

[@seehearsound]

one of the most important female singers of our times

[@halfaxa6846]

and she did it again.

[@lucasdelhove1568]

She always does.

[@Juneau04]

The thing I *really* like of Elena among many other things, is her ability to portray melancholy and sorrow in such an artistic way. It just touches my heartstrings every single time. I don't think I can ever express how much I love her music.

[@dreamyotter6982]

Elena, I've been listening to your beautiful songs for years and it took me courage to write this as I'm used to be unseen. I hope you will read it! I want to thank you for what you are doing. You're gifted and talented! You've been helping me getting through my life for years. Years of struggling, and I've finally become strong enough. I'm a warrior and I believe I will survive. There are no words that could describe the way your voice aches in my heart. The tone and the sounds just perfectly encapsulate what I feel! I really appreciate what you are doing. Thank you! You're a true version of humanity! And my favourite singer ;) Best wishes,

[@konugetka]

I hope she noticed this ♡

[@puopolvj2]

I could not agree more.

[@andigunawan7920]

Well said

[@MissVirtualEyes]

GG ,You will survive because Warriors never give up and never give in.The strength within you shall protect you from the blows of life.

[@wondermuffin9129]

Beautiful words. 😌

[@sushi9549]

I really adore Elena’s artistic portrayal of sorrow and melancholy through her music. And the music video really adds the cherry on top of it.

[@jennifercasey6579]

I am a Flight Attendant so I spend many of my days/nights alone in hotels. This song, and video are just so perfect. They capture the loneliness that comes with traveling and never being in one place for too long. Thank you for being so honest with your lyrics, they have touched my soul!

[@reino7065]

Elena has a way of expressing this magnificent pain and sorrow through every single lyric. This piece and Liar are my personal favorites. So easily they resonate with everything that so many people are or have gone through. I would like to add, that personally, The Dazzler shines brightest in these lines: " Drunk in my hotel room I look perfect I look like I'm 24 before I caught your coldness God I'm gorgeous I keep begging for late checkouts Let me stay here Let me live here In room 232 till I expire I can shower for hours Leave the lights on I'm not paying those bills " To be able to express the metaphor I think she is portraying here in this way is really artistic. This song will definitely stay in my memory till I expire. The music video adds a completely new layer to the meaning of the song, but I have made a way too long comment already.

[@mimia7796]

I have to agree that that verse really encapsulates the feeling of the song! The Dazzler is just one of those songs that takes hold of you right away and doesn't really let go. Other than this one, Crushing, Too Sad and Romance are probably my favourites off the album.

[@mirishvets7037]

Absolutely! These sentences make all the song

[@georgebyrd5503]

New York is my favorite

[@konugetka]

The breakdown of the actress it looks like she's dancing, her moves, but she doesn't idk how to describe it, but it's just so amazing, I can't breathe

[@notalkmeimangyy]

SHE ONLY KNOWS HOW TO FLAIL SKSKSKKSKSS ELENA WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US

[@IsraelPadillaC]

"Oh, this is heaven Alone Yeah, this is living Alone"

[@konugetka]

And the end of the video... It seems like we are in endless time loop and can't get out when we are feeling down and it seems like it never ends But it's just my opinion

[@Momo_MSH]

moonieyo “im not supposed to give my opinion butttt”

[@rubydreamt2440]

@@Momo_MSH that is petty man

[@ficrihasan5796]

wat happen to daughter?

[@atonement.]

@@ficrihasan5796This should explain it. My heart sank when I saw this. www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/daughter-elena-tonra-interview-new-album-solo-exre-music-a8648726.html

[@konugetka]

I love the red tone and connection between this mv and Romance mv It's amazing

[@etheriusmoon1809]

moonieyo yes!

[@noob8765]

The way she sees how sorrowful she was at the end was incredible

[@Hank_Mardookie]

I used to press my hand to the wall when I was a kid and imagine my older self doing the same. I feel that smaller hand… it’s a different hand now. When the world was his to take until it beat him down. Then, one day, he stayed down.

[@yunusemre-rm6xr]

Love this woman. Seriously.

[@XXXTHREAT]

This Women could sing about anything and it would be bliss.

[@XXXTHREAT]

Like, litterally "one for my foot, another for my other foot" who cab make that sounds majestic and poetic as furk!!! So much appriciate for her voice and way after falling in love with this song!

[@sammmyblue5549]

This song destroys me. While i listening, sitting alone in my room. In my House alone. I barely remember how it's outside. Going out with Friends. But i barely have of those here. And the few never found time. When i started living by myself y though It would be fun. I Will be free. But it's not. Every time i come home it's dark and lonely. Nobody waits for me anymore. It's horrid. I feel like i'm drowning, each day i have more trash in my room. Each day it's more difficult for me to wake Up. And i don't know Who to reach. And this song... It points out perfectly this feels. So good that It destroys me.

[@Le-ki8cd]

I know right.. When she says "this is heaven, alone. This is living, alone" It just does something to me... Like this is what I wanted, this is what I needed to break out from a toxic house so this should be heaven now that I'm alone, I should be living, but it's not what I wanted. And her voice and the melancholy, heavy music just cements that to me

[@pulkitpandey8142]

Relatable. Hang in there mate. If you can, keep a pet, if you can't, get a plant. Hobbies help, develop one.

[@nomadiclocust]

@@pulkitpandey8142 Definitely. I ended up getting a cat, which helps somewhat.

[@fuzzidelic]

Hobbies are key. Moments of bliss from culture like this help also.

[@stayoutofthecitys]

BE STRONG MY FRIEND YOU ARE NOT ALONE .

[@gebo133]

This song is on repeat since the album came out

[@kathrynnee7460]

Same for me

[@justinfenty7919]

It fucks me up when a song can explain/ Express the emotions iam feeling better than I can....

[@chaoscabinet]

This song struck memories of staying at hotels. The unfamiliar but relaxing setting where you know you're not staying for long, so the feeling of being free from responsibility takes over. Loneliness relieves you of consequence/judgement from others. Feels like you could stay forever, a feeling that I haven't remembered for so long but crave often, so yeah, this song hit really close to home💜

[@marcocecchi8287]

This is a masterpiece... music, lyrics, the whole atmosphere. It should have at least ten times more listeners on spotify, I just cannot explain it

[@browneyesblackdragon7999]

I listen to this everyday. No joke.

[@emilykopp8517]

I've had a really rough start to my day, not to mention that we are in the dead of winter and life just seems a bit more difficult than it normally does. Elena's words have saved me more than I know. I get to escape into her world and for a minute, all of my worries about non-important things seem to disappear. Forever grateful for her.

[@pyromaniac_kyle2631]

Favourite song from the album for sure. Probably even the best song of 2018 imo, truly special

[@pedrorodrigues2698]

Omg i loved

[@saecsee]

Dude it's 2019.

[@pyromaniac_kyle2631]

@@saecsee the album was released in November dude

[@BrunoBarbosabsb]

I agree. This is the song of the year for sure.

[@saecsee]

@@pyromaniac_kyle2631 I didn't know that. :/ Now I feel embarrassed for being wrong in front of an anonymous person on the internet. I'm not sarcastic. I really do feel like that. Isn't it strange? I always feel embarrassed when being wrong. Well, most of the time, while I could just accept that I was wrong and move on.

[@jiecapry]

The night is young At the Dazzler I spiked my own drink Took myself to bed Alone I pondered the cheap thrills of hotels The miniatures The endless throw away towels One from my hair One from my foot Another for my other foot My face, my neck, my spilt beverages Drunk in my hotel room I look perfect I look like I'm 24 before I caught your coldness God I'm gorgeous I keep begging for late checkouts Let me stay here Let me live here In room 232 till I expire I can shower for hours Leave the lights on I'm not paying those bills The neighbours are quiet No one is back yet I think about the falsities of hotel sex Expensive bed sheets And the orange glowing filaments The way you used to say you love me In the heat of it Holiday feeling When it wasn't over too quick Yeah I throw the TV out the window And I'll paint the whole room of gold I'm make potions with the minibar Yeah I feel unbalanced Put my feet on the walls Trying to meet you all night I'm not paying for calls Oh This is heaven Alone Yeah This is living Alone

[@whaticantbelieveit]

Try and reach you all night

[@chloethesemoments]

It is: paint the whole room gold. Thank you for the lyrics

[@paoloheybaby586]

Najihah Capry thank you

[@reon-larth]

Tysm, now I can have my crisis at the fullest

[@Xusito]

Seriously, thank you

[@patricialune2214]

Listening to Elena through the hardest of times left a mark on. It brings back the fragrance, the colours, and the desperate feeling. The energy of it is never going to sink in.

[@apothekerrie]

Favorite song from the album. There's something so beautifully lonely and cathartic about hotel rooms, and the way the song flows captures that perfectly. When the piano comes in around 2:25 I get chills

[@kike707rodriguez6]

Elena Tonra's solo album had never caught my attention, I thought it was not going to be to my liking and I have ignored the album for 2 years. It was when I ordered all the Daughter records and also Ex: Re. Yesterday they came to me, and my surprise is that, I have not stopped listening to the album, and this is my favorite of the whole album. I can say that Elena Tonra is a magnificent artist, she is one of those few who can open your heart and unleash memories, emotions that were always in the background and hurt, you feel like the soul is connected to the music and cries. I love you Elena Tonra, thank you for all your beautiful songs, thank you for being with me since 2017, I love you.

[@yoohoodrinker566]

The saddest videos have Elena in the TV

[@judyelkadi]

RIGHT

[@kevisdead6682]

this song talks about my life daily

[@edenswan7742]

Dazzler quotes that hit: "This is living!" "The neighbors are quiet ☺️" "I could shower for hours, I'm not paying those bills" "Let me stay here, let me live here!" "I'll make potions with the mini bar! "

[@Ilia9661]

From Russia with love to Elena

[@migratory.114]

yes, yes, yes! russia loves her ♡

[@hijey1198]

Tak dryg rasskaжi kak oni stali Ex.Re esli buli Daughter

[@dart_max]

Ex:Re это сольный проект вокалистки Daughter

[@jannafi07]

Elena Tonra brings so many feelings up with just her vocals. its incredible and just so beautiful

[@nxvember28]

One of my favorites from Ex:Re

[@mechanicalcadaver1]

I always love Elena's vocals, but I especially love her punchy delivery with this new project. Top notch.

[@DigitalPlumbing]

Loneliness is the worst. Constant despair.

[@lucasdelhove1568]

I feel you!

[@halsinden]

you know you've reached peak bleak / excellence when maxine peake appears in your videos.

[@sarahrrk]

she saves my soul / heart with her smooth voice i’m actually crying it’s just so beautiful and relaxing

[@migratory.114]

i relate too much

[@buttert0azt]

I feel so guilty when I heard the dazzler for the first time, I always imagined myself going to hotel just for the sake of doing what I want, drink, smoke, bath all I want 😂 I never thought it will be interpreted into a music There's some feeling in going to hotels, I can't explain...

[@nightskaelum2710]

I know!! This song captures that feeling perfectly, I was so shocked when I listened to it the first time

[@jaqueitch]

Amazingly accurate depiction of my old ways... So depdessing... Sober now. What a difference..

[@yoohoodrinker566]

Yes. Yes it is.

[@almebela2886]

Perfection. Please "too sad.."

[@matea3026]

I love this girl and her angelic voice.❤ I can't even describe how I feel while listening to Elena, it feels like someone stabs me in the heart and I feel weight on my chest, nostalgia hits back but in the other hand not in a bad negative way, I feel alive. It's not just her voice, everyone who worked on this music deserves a huge applause.👏 Thank you guys!

[@seanstock4644]

I was in room 232 for decades. This mortal coil the endless death spin of self introspective ponderings mixed with self-destructive habits just had to put down that last drink.

[@simtekgroup3080]

I have so many memories of sad, lonely nights in hotel rooms. This song captures it all.

[@nekocat568]

The instrumentals are gorgeous. Elena, you really are an inspiration to me. I seriously want a Fender Telecaster one of these days because of the sound you bring.

[@silasb1293]

this song hurts my chest

[@lydiamorgan9180]

I am in an amazing loving and understanding relationship and yet here I am vicariously feeling all the emotions in this song.

[@giupicognome2025]

An underrated masterpiece... only 100k views? are you kidding me?

[@BrunoBarbosabsb]

THIS MUSIC IS SOMETHING MORE THAN MUSIC. Its kinda a chronicle, the feeling of a person who is trying to make live worthy being alone. Is someone trying to let behind all the shit about love and making things better with memories. We all should do what she says in this music, go to a hotel room alone, drink alot, enjoy the "endless trhowaway towels", think about the times you made sex with your ex lover in this same hotel. And, the most importat, enjoy your own existance and your whole complexity of a human being. We all born and die alone, at the end of the life.

[@steffimeier3238]

She sings tears into my eyes like the mother I never had

[@rogerwasp8414]

there's a portishead-y vibe to it that i just can't describe, i just sit back and feel it.

[@matea3026]

omg true..I thought the same

[@maisamnajjar1501]

I can listen to this all the day

[@ilianametaxa3573]

I relate this song with Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the dark so much. It perfectly captures the sense of alienation, the loneliness, the precarious nature of hotels, the heavy drinking, the hollow lovemaking, the self-destruction. Amazing how a song released in 2019 can relate so much to a modernist novel.

[@wenslyventura1350]

Idk why this song reminds me "to belong" of daughter but just the visual part. Love u elena 💙

[@lunaa5323]

I love this song way to much

[@Playboyfaithful]

I connect to daughter because even though I hate the feeling of being somber I also crave it. The raw sadness I get from her it makes me get in this mood ..just I love it. I remember touch was the first song I’ve heard by daughter way back and now this project is amazing.

[@pascalpellegrino8797]

thank you for existing..

[@takiahawthorne3716]

Bless us...bless us all with this gift of music.....I enjoy everything and every word you say...it's just mellow and breathtaking!!!

[@haydengrooms]

elena is absolutely brilliant in so many ways

[@dionkhumalo2510]

Elena's voice and words profoundly express our dreams and demons. God I love your music, it hurts

[@user-xb9su2pu6n]

This song breaks my heart. And yet I keep coming back

[@Project-Air]

Love this song

[@user-io4ps9bi9y]

God, you have no idea how excited I am to see you making more content!!! I can't wait to see what else you've got in store

[@how_to_be_invisible]

The video and music just reminds me of being in a really bad time with depression in uni. Like things are intense and overwhelming - analysing a lot of details in the room and past memories. The late check out line brings back feelings of just wanting to be up in the night without consequence of exhaustion and having to face another day when it hits sun rise. Christ this song hit me deeper than expected. Thank you Elena! ♥

[@sarahkeith37]

The lighting, movement, lyrics, and musicality of thos song. I am truly in awe. This is art, this makes me feel or at least remeber how it is t to feel this way. Feels like I caught a glimpse into the darker part of someone else's soul and my own that we don't dare say aloud. Sadly and optimistically somehow more connected.

[@KingLegendas]

EU TE AMO DEMAAAISS PORRRA

[@TheGrandpaCreative]

Us

[@bazethz]

tem brasileiro q ouve essa deusaaa

[@MandyStaaaar]

Tbm huasuhas

[@saulwinches2325]

Amo dms bixo

[@giovanyeugenio]

OUÇO DESDE 2017 🤧🤧🤧🤧

[@savanahaalexandria855]

Saddest part is knowing that this is me filled with emptiness and trying to fill it with drugs and alcohol and reminiscing on the experiences of the past that could’ve been but never happened

[@sourplumsorbet]

The background piano truly touches the depths of my soul. Everytime I listen to this beautiful work of art by Elena, something stirs within me. Something that brings tears to my eyes, yet also fills my heart with hope. I cannot explain what emotions her voice alone, makes me experience. Thank you so much for making this song. If I could possibly like more than once, ah, I'd have pressed that like icon a million times already.♥️

[@jabin4175]

Again.she stirs my soul.I want to watch her perform live before I die.

[@burgundymusic69]

When she sings 'I can shower for hours' that just hits me hard every single time

[@murphybrown666]

Your music was a laser Into the Heart of a severely dark heart... This is why you are not a billionaire... If I had my way... Your music would be on every radio station in the nation... I'm happy that I found you while you were singing in the band daughter

[@mushroomburrito]

That same vibe you got from the music video of Still, but more mature

[@NelsonTarazona]

'Here in my hotel room, I look gorgeous, I look like I'm 24, before, I caught your coldness, god I'm gorgeous.'

[@SaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavageGang]

beautiful just added this to one of our playlist

[@iamthemoonie6976]

artwork, i have no words

[@lucasribeiro3855]

I love Elena soo much! Her voice is so similar with Florence Welch’s voice, hope one day they could collaborate together in a song❤️

[@bellezzo]

Lyrics: The night is young At the Dazzler I spiked my own drink Took myself to bed Alone I pondered the cheap thrills of hotels The miniatures The endless throw away towels One from my hair One from my foot Another for my other foot My face, my neck, my spilt beverages Drunk in my hotel room I look perfect I look like I'm 24 before I caught your coldness God I'm gorgeous I keep begging for late checkouts Let me stay here Let me live here In room 232 till I expire I can shower for hours Leave the lights on I'm not paying those bills The neighbours are quiet No one is back yet I think about the falsities of hotel sex Expensive bed sheets And the orange glowing filaments The way you used to say you love me In the heat of it Holiday feeling When it wasn't over too quick Yeah I throw the TV out the window And I'll paint the whole room of gold I'm make potions with the minibar Yeah I feel unbalanced Put my feet on the walls Trying to meet you all night I'm not paying for calls Oh This is heaven Alone Yeah This is living Alone

[@art__bycarmen]

OMG WHAT this is one of my fav songs off the album im glad it has a mv now

[@kaltezhan]

Haven't felt this way about an album since Turn on the Bright Lights. Already strapped it to the deepest parts of my heart.

[@dennisj.8072]

This always leaves me crying, but it's beautiful.

[@joychapman2970]

so happy to see and hear this!! keep up the fantastic work💕 much love

[@ikari076]

so touching

[@hoomandehghani2035]

This is basically Daughter with a new name :) Still the same old greatness.

[@lShootingStarz]

I love this song with my soul. Thank you, Elena, I love all your music from deep down in my core. ❤️

[@gosiamiezniewska4460]

„Oh This is heaven Alone Yeah This is living Alone” This is heaven = my own hell It’s like going through brakedown...suddenly i feel this again and i want everyone go away and be alone in my safe place = my personal hell

[@GabrielTrentinBarbosa]

Come to Brazil!

[@jorgeverbel7885]

I don't know why this song hits so hard to me 😔

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

Thanks for another song 😊❤️ Hope you are feeling better by now~ much love x

[@paulblenkiron478]

A REALLY WONDERFUL PIECE OF MUSIC. LOVE IT .

[@MsDire]

Elena Tonra is an absolute gem.

[@everfeltthesky]

Love it! Your album is fab!!

[@taylorpeters23]

absolutely breathtaking

[@notalkmeimangyy]

I'm so excited for more.

[@xmerrin]

One of my favourites from this album! :D

[@etheriusmoon1809]

Was waiting for this music video everyday! Ahhh!